[dayglored]

> Virtualization has nothing to do with Dell, per se. Everyone is doing virtualization, or rather, can, since it's a software thing. This piece is a Dell ad masquerading as a news story.

Yep.

But if it gets VMware into the public eye more, fine.

I run VMware's Fusion on my MacBook, and Workstation on both Windows and Linux hosts, with about half a dozen different guest OSes. It rocks.

The article's idle speculation about Apple allowing OSX as a guest OS is stupid though. Apple will never allow that on anyone else's hardware.

[taxcontrol]

VMWare is not the only virtualization software. Xen / Virtuozzo etc are other titles. Each with it’s own set of strengths and weaknesses.

[DB]

I just went to their Web site.

Looks like a likely solution to my Vista problems...

Does one create a virtual machine and then install the operating system onto that virtual machine? So I need to either go purchase XP to install on the virtual machine or use the Win2k that I already own.

How bad is the performance hit? Do you have to have drivers for the virtual machine OS that support the actual hardware or does it use the existing Vista drivers?

I'm excited. Perhaps I can continue to use some of my old engineering tools without rewriting them all.